Hospital emergencies are on the point of collapse in Catalonia. The similar as in different communities similar to Galicia or the Valencian Community. The state of affairs has worsened throughout the first weeks of 2023 as a result of enhance within the care burden. Patients accumulate waits of as much as 12 hours to be handled whereas the unions denounce that the state of affairs is unsustainable.
An instance of the collapse is the Hospital de Mar in Barcelona. 138 sufferers are admitted to the emergency room this Monday, when the perfect capability is 96 sufferers. 42 of them exceed 24 hours and two of them have been ready for greater than 5 days to be uploaded to the plant.
Equally flagrant is the saturation of the Moisés Broggi Hospital in Sant Joan Despí. This Monday there are 134 occupied beds when the emergencies are designed to confess a most of 70 sufferers. There are 57 sufferers awaiting admission and 11 sufferers have been admitted to an emergency room for a minimum of 4 days, in accordance with information from the unions.
Treatment in transit areas
“My 74-year-old father has been hospitalized since Saturday night time with a lung an infection,” explains Lidia. “He’s in a mattress within the hallway,” she denounces. “He’s getting higher however they anticipate he has a few days left right here and they do not know if he’ll get a room earlier than he leaves,” she provides. Lídia regrets the discomfort of receiving remedy within the hall, “on a regular basis there’s motion of stretchers, noise, lights on,” she provides.
The state of affairs comes from afar. Last week it was the Sant Joan de Déu de Martorell Hospital that accrued dozens of sufferers admitted to the emergency corridors. This Monday, the state of affairs is normalized.
Respiratory viruses and deficiencies in major care are in charge
The enhance in respiratory viruses, similar to flu and colds, and the shortage of sources are a number of the causes of this example. Metges, the bulk union, denounces that the precariousness of Primary Care can be behind this saturation, with waits of greater than three weeks to be visited for an pressing drawback.
The unions introduced a strike two months in the past for the subsequent 25 and 26 January to protest the general public well being state of affairs. They denounce that to this point there was no curiosity on the a part of the Coselleria de Salut to dialogue with the protesters. Metges denounces that the collapse has been happening for a very long time and that “solely in very severe instances, does the well being care attend because it ought to.”
The well being personnel of the Sant Joan de Déu de Martorell Hospital have known as a rally this Tuesday in entrance of the well being middle to demand high quality well being care.